|
|
Article: The word for Moscow: reform. (coal miners in Karaganda send delegates to the Communist Party conference in Moscow)
- Article from:
- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- July 4, 1988
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1988 All rights reserved. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Gorbachev fumbled delegate selection and will not get all he wanted from this week's freewheeling party conference. It may produce a standoff. But Karaganda's miners yearn for the freedom he offers
It promises to be the most spectacular show-and the severest test of his reforms-since Mikhad Gorbachev came to power.- Some 5,000 delegates are streaming to Moscow this week for an extraordinary conference of the Communist Party. Gorbachev last year called the conference, the first since 1941, hoping to purge the party's powerful Central Committee of opponents and move his ideas of perestroika and glasnost much closer to reality. He clearly won't realize those ...